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The 32nd annual Bering Straits School District Wrestling and Cheerleading competition started yesterday in Unalakleet. Almost 300 students and coaches headed to the school district’s seat to take part. KNOM’s Zachariah Hughes reports from Unalakleet. http://knom.org/wp-audio/2013/11/2013-11-08-bssd-wrestling.mp3

In Thursday’s news: AFN officials denounce the state’s lawsuit in the recent Katie John subsistence ruling; Gov. Parnell wants the state to build a road to the NovaCopper Ambler Mine; Sen. Olson addressed the Nome Rotary Club yesterday on a range of legislative issues; The Snake River Bridge in Nome is open for traffic. http://knom.org/wp-audio/2013/11/2013-11-07-update-news.mp3

In Wednesday’s news: Nova is back in WAK, this time with NovaCopper drilling at their prospect near Ambler; A VPO in Togiak is charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl; State Supreme Court reject’s appeal to March ruling requiring cumulative impact reviews for DNR-issued development permits; In Nome runoff election, preliminary count puts Sparks ahead…

In Tuesday’s news: Nome Police Dept. released a report on yesterday’s vehicle crash along the Nome-Teller Highway; Kawerak has sent a letter to AK’s gov. representatives recommending aid options to struggling communities on St. Lawrence Island; Southward migration of North America’s largest caribou herd delayed by almost a month; Today is the special runoff election…

In Monday’s News: AST says a man died in a Saturday house-fire in the small community of Shageluk; Officials with the Red Cross say they will assist families in the Kenai Peninsula displaced by flooding; Unaataq, land-owner of the Pilgrim Hot Springs, begin plans to utilize geothermal resources; Group marks the start of Alaska Native…

In Friday’s news: Alaska State Troopers have ended their search for Nick Cooke and Jim Lee Napoka; A Black Hawk from Nome rescues two men who flew into an “unnamed mountain”; Sen. Murkowski and Rep. Young criticize the Nat. Park Service’s Memorandum of Understanding. http://knom.org/wp-audio/2013/11/2013-11-01-update-news.mp3

In Thursday’s news: Searchers in the lower Kuskokwim continue looking for Nick Cook and Jim Napoka; Councilman Stan Anderson sends a letter of apology to NSHC’s Board of Directors after Monday’s comments; Ahead of next weeks 4.5 million acre lease sale in the NPR-A, subsistence hunters warn that the pace of development in North Slope…

In Friday’s news: Byron Mallot addresses the AFN Convention; Diomede prepares a resolution to declare an economic disaster; Kawerak’s Social Science Program releases traditional knowledge projects; The AK Water and Sewer Challenge seeks a decentralized water and sewer system. http://knom.org/wp-audio/2013/10/2013-10-25-knom-update-news.mp3

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